Movie on man who cut off arm to escape boulder to be filmed in Utah

The award-winning director of "Slumdog
Millionaire" says he plans to make a movie about the
mountaineer renowned for amputating his own arm after it was
pinned by a half-ton boulder while he was hiking alone in Utah.

Danny Boyle says production on the movie "127
Hours" will take place in Utah over 42 days in March
and April. He says some of the filming will be done in
Bluejohn Canyon, where Aron Ralston's ordeal took place.

Ralston cut off his right arm with a dull blade in 2003 after
he'd be pinned for several days at the bottom of the
remote canyon, near Moab. He later wrote a book about the
experience, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place,"
which inspired the movie. The Coloradan also gives
motivational speeches.

A Utah state panel has approved a tax credit incentive of up
to $2.8 million for the filming of his story.